Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Robbins

Will today be the day you decide once and for all to make your life consistent with the quality of your spirit? Then start by proclaiming, "This is what I am. This is what my life is about. And this is what I'm going to do. Nothing will stop me from achieving my destiny. I will not be denied!

Simone de Beauvoir

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours...

Simone de Beauvoir

One can not start by saying our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends on us to give it importance.

Simone Weil

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Richard Branson

The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.

Swami Vivekananda

Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.

Tite Kubo

When the two that share destiny part and reunite, beyond the frame of time, the ceased clock will awake and start to tick once again.

Rutherford B. Hayes

The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not--will not be forgotten nor neglected.... But those who fought against the Nation cannot and do not look to it for relief.... Confederate soldiers and their descendants are to share with us and our descendants the destiny of America. Whatever, therefore, we their fellow citizens can do to remove burdens from their shoulders and to brighten their lives is surely in the pathway of humanity and patriotism.

Ruta Sepetys

Decisions, they shape our destiny.

Thomas Merton

Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.

Thomas Merton

Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be affected, some remotely, but some very directly and near-at-hand, by my own choices and decisions and desires, as my own life would also be formed and modified according to theirs.

Thomas Merton

Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in His Kingdom. Each one of us is called to a special place in the Kingdom. If we find that place we will be happy. If we do not find it, we can never be completely happy. For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

Tony Evans

God can take the good, bad and the bitter and create a masterpiece called your destiny.

Tommy Hilfiger

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

Ronald Reagan

Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it.

S. Truett Cathy

Each person's destiny is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice. It's determined by what we say, what we do, and whom we trust.

Rumi

When you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for one breath, in that moment you will find your true destiny. Alas, don't spoil this precious moment. Moments like this are very, very rare.

Story Musgrave

It is humanity's destiny to explore the universe. When we start thinking and working on that cosmic level, we will transcend our parochial differences and tribal natures and become global creatures, solar system creatures. Then we will figure out where we fit in.

Steve Jobs

Of course, we can not connect imprint future, you can just hook them to look back. So rest assured that the dots, the events in your life in one way or another will affect your future. You have to have faith in something - the courage, destiny, life, destiny or whatever - thinking that has made the difference in my life

Sri Chinmoy

Today I must dive deep within And know what I come To this earth-stage for.

Regina Brett

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts--your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.

Robert Bourassa

English Canada must clearly understand that, whatever is said or done, Québec is, today and forever, a distinct society, that is free and able to assume [the control of] its destiny and its development.

Toni Morrison

From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.

Tom Tancredo

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

Tom Chappell

A company finds its destiny by answering three questions: 'Who are we?,' 'What do we stand for?,' and 'How do we serve?,'

Tim LaHaye

Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.

Tim Costello

Ultimately we have got to co-operate for our common destiny.

Russell M. Nelson

Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny.

Stefan Zweig

Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize its magical power, it's gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny.

Thomas Hardy

How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all!

Thomas Hardy

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

Thomas B. Macaulay

What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!

Victor Hugo

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.